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BBC’s OneCoin podcast “The Missing Cryptoqueen” has it all
A conspiracy, larger than life characters, pyramid schemes, plastic surgery: if you want a podcast that has all the ingredients of a mystery novel and combines with some decent journalism, look no further than The Missing Cryptoqueen. The podcast hasn’t gathered as much attention as it should, so here’s a…
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Going Green [1]: Switching banks
Every #FutureFriday Stefan Meeuws publishes a blog on going green. He has recently become a vegetarian, is switching to a greener bank and in general tries to reduce his impact on the environment. This blog is a personal account of the struggles and benefits he experiences on his quest to…
Italian Street Photos, a gallery
Street photos of the Italian cities Naples, Rome and Catania, by Robert Neurath. Follow him on Twitter. Check out his previous galleries too. Photos taken by Robert Neurath in Italy in June 2019
Choose better leaders
We can disassociate ourselves from the leaders making bad decisions right now, around the world. “They’re not my leaders, I did not vote for them…” But the fact is, as societies we did. So let’s not distance ourselves, let’s engage… Recently, I was listening to the good-bad-advice podcast “Dear Hank…
Song&Art: ‘Too many birds’
In the song ‘Too Many Birds’, Bill Callahan paints a beautiful portrait with his words and melody. It gave me a feeling that I found hard to shake. With songs like this it makes me think of what it all could mean, for me anyway. The song can be interpreted…
Niccolò Ammaniti: You and Me
Sometimes you stumble across an author, whose every word you’d like to devour. At least, I stumbled across one of those, back when I was 19 years old. His name is Niccolò Ammaniti. Frantically, I bought all his books. Ammaniti is a unique writer, unique on every shelf of every…
Photos and music: a constant journey
Photography and music. They’re two things that are sometimes only combined after they’re made. In a tacky slideshow perhaps… But Clinton Davey argues that photos are not just images, and music is not just sounds. They are memories, frozen time, and a transportation vehicle to a time gone by. In…
Alliances and Monuments
When Facebook has started to celebrate my friendships in weird slideshows causing retina seizures, I opened the bottom drawer to grab an old ugly postcard with singing kittens. Maximum noise out of a little loudspeaker, the melody of Happy Birthday, no words, only meows, in a never ending loop until…
Photo Gallery: Streets of Paris, France
As a tribute to the city of Paris, we present you this gallery of street photos of the city of Paris. Robert Neurath visited the city before the disastrous fire in the Notre Dame in April. Here’s the gallery he made of the photos he took there. Street photos of…
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